Archive: Jul 2017

• Labor Racket Weekly: Money on the Streets, Not in Union Treasuries

  Posted on Jul 28, 2017 by LaborPains.org Team

  This week’s rackets include more embezzlement charges from across the country: In Delaware, Lon Sullivan, former Treasurer of American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 644, was sentenced to three years of probation and 200 hours of community service, and he was ordered to pay the remaining balance of restitution in the amount $59,809. Sullivan previously paid $37,000 in […]

• WSJ Supports Employee Rights Act

  Posted on Jul 24, 2017 by LaborPains.org Team

  In late July, The Wall Street Journal editorialized in favor of the Employee Rights Act (ERA), the most comprehensive update to American labor law since the 1940s. It goes to show the virtues of the ERA—which protects employees with eight substantive reforms—and the pressing need for labor reform. You can read a snippet here: The House bill […]

• The SEIU’s Wardrobe War

  Posted on Jul 19, 2017 by LaborPains.org Team

  While staffers in Congress are complaining about the right to bare arms (and shoulders), Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 221 is fighting for the right to wear Birkenstocks and swim trunks at work in the summer. Here’s the backstory. An official from the City of San Diego sent an email highlighting that a relaxed dress code would be maintained throughout the summer […]

• WSJ Editorial Board Slams Teachers Unions

  Posted on Jul 18, 2017 by LaborPains.org Team

  A few days ago, The Wall Street Journal‘s Editorial Board slammed the New York-based United Federation of Teachers (UFT), which is affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers. The Editorial Board specifically criticized the UFT’s efforts to reinstate poor teachers “who couldn’t be fired but no one wanted.” Here’s how the editorial began: For decades the United Federation […]

• Two of the Craziest Labor Stories You’ll Ever Read

  Posted on Jul 11, 2017 by LaborPains.org Team

  Life is never dull in union America. Earlier this month, George Botts, vice president of New York’s Amalgamated Transit Union Local 726, was caught falsifying time sheets. How’d he get caught? E-ZPass. According to the New York Daily News, Botts was recorded “paying tolls at the same time he was supposed to be performing union duties […]

• Labor Racket Weekly: More Union Corruption on the Newswires

  Posted on Jul 07, 2017 by LaborPains.org Team

  As the smoke clears from the 4th of July weekend, more union corruption has appeared on the newswires. Here are this week’s best rackets: In Ohio, Arthur W. Boedecker, former Vice President of Utility Workers Union of America (UWUA) Local 270, pled guilty to one count of aggravated theft from a union. On the same date, Boedecker […]